Butcher Boys

Synopsis

You are what you eat

A gut-wrenching, non-stop roller coaster ride through the hellish underbelly of inner-city America. A birthday celebration at an upscale restaurant sets in motion events that bring Sissy, her brother, Mikey, and friends, Kenny and Barbie, face to face with the macabre world of the Boneboys. Inspired by Jonathan Swift's cannibalistic tale A Modest Proposal, the Boneboys are international predators who deal in human flesh - dead or alive. Their hunting grounds are the cities of the world.

I took some nyquil last night and fell asleep around 10pm. When I take nyquil I usually wake up bright and early and in a bit of a haze even though I can never fall back asleep.

This morning, when I woke up in that post-nyquil haze at 4am with the TV still on from the night before this movie was on. I woke up about 20 minutes in but I really don't think I missed anything important.

I woke up just in time to see the titular butcher boys start chasing two couples through the deserted streets of the shitty part of some Texas city (Houston...San Antonio...I don't really remember).

Well that was interesting to say the least. I would have to say though I am of two minds about this film. In one aspect the batshit crazy third act is just so damn fun but what leads up to it is stuff we've all seen before.

Kim Henkel one of the screen writers of the original Texas Chainsaw writes this script that takes a while to get going but when it does it becomes what if we mashed up Texas Chainsaw and Texas Chainsaw 2 into one film and set it the middle of the city. The formula is everything we've seen before so this really isn't anything original but what really redeems it somewhat is when we get…

I watched this off of a compilation DVD set that I grabbed out of a dollar bin. This collection stretched the very limits of imaginative names, by being called "8 Horror Movies." I know, I was shocked by sheer might of that name. It strikes deep into my core and has forever changed me. It also has me wanting to make a new set of lists called "Craptacular Compilations!" Because I like listing things no one wants lists of. Let's begin.

It wasn't until the end credits of Butcher Boys where I saw that this movie was written by Kim Henkel, the writer of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Not that I was swayed anyway by that fact, just figured…

Proud anti-art, this one! Sort of a Judgement Night ripoff with late echoes of young Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, and even — to a lesser extent — Sam Raimi. Rarely on any fav list, I don't think this film will ever have a huge following; and I can understand that. But nevertheless, Butcher Boys has my warmest recommendations. That is if you can handle the enveloping sleaziness.

Ok..(Butcher Boys) originally titled (Bone Boys) was a manic, never a dull moment film about cannibals and other strange 'people'.We are treated to a very messed up looking inbred monster in chains. A crazy old man in drag with a cattle prod and too many others to mention.

It starts with a lot of chase scenes via car and on foot but I was entertained and never once thought about turning it off or being bored."Ali Faulkner" who played Sissy was actually quite remarkable and the stand out actor as a girl in turmoil always trying to get the upper hand and trying her best to escape.

The movie features cameos from nine Texas Chainsaw alumni including Edwin Neal, Marilyn…

The Butcher Boys is a bit of a rollercoaster...I mean, you kind of hate it most of the way through, but this was written by Kim Henkel who wrote the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre and was meant to be a sequel to that. Instead it got made nearly 4 decades after the original and was tweaked to be set in present time (and yes without the tall, obese man with stunted mental growth with poorly constructed skin mask and chainsaw in hand)

You might think this is just another ridiculous low budget gorefest (and it probably is) but it seems so similar to Texas Chain Saw in so many ways, that it really does show how that film would…

I've since come around on Kim Henkel's THE RETURN OF THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE so I held out hope out that maybe I'd find something to enjoy in this one even though no good reviews exist for this one.

Films with such cut-and-paste sloppy storylines such as these, if there’s to be any enjoyment had, the director needs to do at lest two of the following:

⭕️Encourage the audience to empathise with the victims ⭕️Craft such enigmatic and complex villains that the audience want to see bite the dust - the titular Boys spend more effort preening and pouting than showing any real charisma. ⭕️Shoot the shit out of the cinematography and make it look beautiful. ⭕️Include such a killer soundtrack that people see the film just for that old Isley Brothers tune.

OR...

⭕️Make it good and silly, with deliberately poor attempts at gallows humour.

I watched this off of a compilation DVD set that I grabbed out of a dollar bin. This collection stretched the very limits of imaginative names, by being called "8 Horror Movies." I know, I was shocked by sheer might of that name. It strikes deep into my core and has forever changed me. It also has me wanting to make a new set of lists called "Craptacular Compilations!" Because I like listing things no one wants lists of. Let's begin.

It wasn't until the end credits of Butcher Boys where I saw that this movie was written by Kim Henkel, the writer of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Not that I was swayed anyway by that fact, just figured…